Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Suzanne O'Neil, CEO and Tim O'Neil, Founder & President of Aigis Point, they forecast the cyber threats most likely to affect an insured in the next 12 months with patent pending technology. Currently Cyber Security is based on what happened yesterday, Aigis Point is forward facing, predictive. They also give you a Get Well Plan to help you secure your cyber exposures. A very interesting conversation!

Suzanne O'Neil: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanne-oneil-7490643b8/

Tim O'Neil: linkedin.com/in/tim-o-22774918/?skipRedirect=true

Aigis Point: https://www.aigispoint.net/

Tony chats with Bennett Borden, CEO at Clarion AI Partners. Attorney, Data Scientist, and AI Ethicist, Bennet Borden is a true unicorn in the interception of Law and AI. We have a fascinating conversation about what responsible deployment of AI in insurance should look like and much more. Don't miss this one!

Bennett Borden: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennett-borden/
Clarion AI Partners: https://clarionai.com/

Tony chats with Jimmy Paskell, Co-Founder & CEO at ButFor, an insurtech that models risks proactively and automates business interruption claims. Built by a forensic accountant and focused on helping policyholders it's a very interested model.

Jimmy Paskell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmypaskell/
ButFor: https://butfor.co/

Tony chats with Cindy Baroway, long-time insurance professional, former president of the CPCU Society, and former Executive Director of the RMI Program at the University of Colorado. This is a career conversation with great advice for the next generation of insurance professionals.

Cindy Barroway: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindybaroway/

Tony chats with Kasey Roh, Head of US at Upstage AI, they are an enterprise AI startup building next generation intelligent document processing technology. They build end to end from pipeline to delivery with with best in class accuracy and performance with everything vertically integrated.

Kasey Roh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaseyroh/
Upstage AI: https://www.upstage.ai/

Tony chats with Curtis Barton, Founder & CEO at Alkeme. It started as an amalgamation of 7 agencies that came together with an idea that they'd be stronger together. Initially it was to get market access. Then they went from affiliate group to becoming a single agency, brought in private equity and became an owner operator model insurance agency. They focused on data integrity from day 1 and have grown from $25M in 2020 to $350M in 2025 and are now a Top 25 player! They also now offer "The Alchemy Collective". A fascinating episode about one of the most successful agencies of this decade.

Curtis Barton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtisbarton/
Alkeme: https://alkemeins.com/

Tony chats with Phil Hong, Co-Founder & CEO at GuideAI, they are a client onboarding platform that allows them to enable any legacy platform into a voice enabled agentic platform without needing to rip and replace.

Phil Hong: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-hong/
GuideAi: https://www.getguide.ai/

Tony chats with returning guest Mark Miller, Founder at Insurevision.Ai to give us an update and show us the platform. Insurevision.AI they are a state of the art transformer AI which turns video into a measure of risk which helps you understand driver claims, improve driver quality, save lives, save money, and make your community safer. Their video risk assessment tool FleetVision, a video based system that measures what the driver does. Telematics measures what the vehicle does, but it can't differentiate whether an "event" was dangerous or whether it was a skilled driver avoiding an accident. A "smooth" driver could be half asleep and telematics might not catch it.

Mark Miller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-miller-81a89b149/
InsureVision: https://insurevision.ai/
Prior Episode on PIR: https://youtu.be/YQk6heUL_3w?si=CEogzlm1TQT-_mfS

Tony chats with LaMar Garrett, Marketing & Communications Specialist at Redbird Security, they are an insurance specific MSP and Cybersecurity company offering full support across Applied Epic, HawkSoft, and AMS360.

LaMar Garrett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lamar-it/
RedBird Security: https://redbirdsecurity.com/

Tony chats with Yehuda Daniel Katz, Co-Founder & CEO at RiskRemedy, they offer AI-powered technology to retail and wholesale insurance brokers helping with back-office workflows including: Policy Review, Quote Comparison, Renewal Comparison, Compliance Checks, Portfolio Tracking, Proposal Generation, and more. Their biggest differentiator is they're designing it to be easy to adopt and highly unified across workflows.

Yehuda Daniel Katz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielykatz/
RiskRemedy: https://www.RiskRemedy.io

Tony chats with Brian Graff, CEO & Founder at Vibe Insurance, a platform connecting insurance buyers looking for new insurance and matching them with top rated agencies in their specific niche. They work both Commercial and Personal Lines.

Brian Graff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-graff-a27aa782/
Vibe Insurance: https://www.vibeinsurance.co/

Tony chats with Amit Chabra, Founder & CEO at InEvo AI, they are a platform for intake process optimization utilizing all the modern technologies. It manages InEvo's AI agents and even external AI agents to optimize your intake process. For now they are serving Commercial Auto and Commercial Property with more lines to come.

Amit Chabra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitchabra/
InEvo AI: https://inevo.ai/

Tony chats with Varun Mishra, Founder & CEO at AgenQ. They have created the GPS for business software. Just like Google Maps or Waze directs you turn by turn with an arrow, AgenQ guides you through your business software at every click, wherever and whenever you need help.

Varun Mishra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishravarun/
AgenQ: https://agenq.com/

Tony chats with Stephen Collins, Co-Founder & Executive Director at ManageMy, an insurance platform dedicated to create the best customer journeys for the entire value chain across Life, Health, and P&C.

Stephen Collins: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-collins-7b71b314/
ManageMy: https://managemy.com

Tony chats with Luis Pino, CEO & Founder at Agentero, for an update on Agentero. They have a network of 2,000 agencies. They realized they needed a way to manage compliance so they built ProducerFlow a compliance platform for carriers and MGAs, which they now offer to the rest of the market. If compliance in your operation is compliance, you should take a look at ProducerFlow!

Luis Pino: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-pino/
Agentero: https://www.agentero.com
Original Episode on Profiles in Risk: https://youtu.be/uhTPq9ZJTjo?si=Bt_iBTCrggwJEifz

Tony chats with William Steenbergen, Co-Founder & CTO at Federato, the only AI native platform that truly covers the full policy life cycle. They do everything from submission, running AI agents to quote, handling forms, managing issues, endorsements, and ultimately renewing policies.

William Steenbergen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamsteenbergen/
Federato: https://www.federato.ai/

Tony chats with Jose Cruz, President at CS9 Consulting. Jose is a long-time proven sales leader who has led the selling of over half a billion dollars of premium. In his next chapter, he is now a consulting to helping insurance organizations grow faster, smarter, and more profitably.

Jose Cruz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseacruz/
CS9 Consulting: https://cs9consulting.com/

Tony chats with Rob Reynolds, Founder & CEO and Michelle Middleton, COO at Fall Lines Specialty about the quickly emerging world of AI Liability and how insurance agents need to start preparing for this. A fascinating conversation. Fall Lines Speciality is a specialty insurance platform that delivers technology to compete in an AI enabled marketplace.

Rob Reynolds: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reynolds-robert-rva/
Michelle Middleton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellemiddleton408/
Fall Lines Specialty: https://www.falllinespecialty.com/

Clifford Cohen, Strategic Enterprise Account Executive at Epoq joined me for a quick episode. He'll be joining the Insurance Nerds Reception at ITC, Monday 6 pm at Rhythm and Riffs. Epoq is a pioneer for legal technology in the insurance industry and can white label a wide range of legal services with your insurance policy, along with creating non-risk revenue.

Tony chats with Jerry Chie, CEO at Guava. They are reimagining what insurance can look like, if it was sold based on reward and they are building the loyalty platform for insurance with appropriate messaging deeply integrated to keep the customers engaged.

Jerry Chien: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrychienx/
Guava: https://guavainsurance.com/